Hail Father, Whose Creating Call

Hail, Father, whose creating call
Unnumbered worlds attend;
Jehovah, comprehending all,
Whom none can comprehend!

In light unsearchable enthroned,
Whom angels dimly see,
The fountain of the Godhead owned,
And foremost of the Three.

From Thee, through an eternal now,
The Son, Thine offspring, flowed;
An everlasting Father Thou,
An everlasting God.

Nor quite displayed to worlds above,
Nor quite on earth concealed;
By wondrous, unexhausted love,
To mortal man revealed.

Supreme and all-sufficient God,
When nature shall expire,
And worlds created by Thy nod
Shall perish by Thy fire.

Thy Name, Jehovah, be adored
By creatures without end,
Whom none but Thy essential Word
And Spirit comprehend.

Author: Charles Wesley

Year: 1739

This is one of Charles Wesley's early hymns from the 1739 collection 'Hymns and Sacred Poems'. It is part of a series of hymns on the Trinity (Father, Son, Holy Ghost). Some later hymnals have attributed similar Trinitarian texts to Samuel Wesley Sr. or made them anonymous, but the style, meter, and publication history point to Charles Wesley.